pension because Columbus took it from Rodrigo. When the crew reached land‚ the Arawak Indians would swim out to greet the foreigners and offered hospitality to them. Columbus and his people would begin to take advantage of the Arawak Indians’ hospitality. The Arawaks lived in villages‚ grew their own food‚ and wore earrings made of
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Topic: Human Cultural Development via the Arts Members of Group: Mickael Carmel‚ Rhea Farrell‚ Kyla Burton‚ La-Chelle Carter‚ Zhané Joseph‚ Kyla Weaver‚ Shennel Douglas and Niah Joseph Teacher: Mrs. Camacho Subject: Caribbean Studies According to Marcus Garvey‚ “a people without the knowledge of their past history‚ origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” Cultural arts continue to be of major influence in Caribbean society. Cultural Arts is interpreted as‚ the civilization of a given
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The dynamics of the Indians and African relationship where most of time treated the same way. If you weren’t already here already‚ the whites brought you over in a boat. Know as the Trans Atlantic slave trade or Indian slave trade. Indians help shaped African Americans “way of life within the circumstances that slavery forced on them.” The British began to take over the Atlantic coastal. We all know the American Indians were here first and spoke different languages than the others. The Indians lived
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years‚ when "pioneers" started depicting their experiences with beforehand obscure societies that were fundamentally oral in natures‚ for instance. Accepting that such societies had remained basically unaltered from their beginnings‚ the Europeans called them "primitive" and gathered that for them history started just when they experienced "cutting edge/acculturated" societies. We know now that those
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Martinique was called Madina and inhabited by Caribs‚ before Christopher Columbus sighted the island. Three decades later‚ the first party of French settlers landed on the northwest side of the island. A fort was built‚ and they settled into what later became the capital‚ St. Pierre. A year later‚ a decree authorizing the use of African slaves in the French West Indies was signed. The settlers quickly colonized with the help of slave labor‚ and constructed the Fort-de-France. Caribs were soon kicked
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particular environment. The classic period saw the culminations of the tremendous achievements that began appearing in the pre- classic period‚ and that’s architecture‚ the arts‚ mathematics‚ astronomy and writing. During the classic period said to be so called‚ Maya civilization between 250A.D and 900 A.D‚ the Maya area include southern Mexico. Western Honduras and El Salvador‚ Guatemala and Belize‚ What is now? Several sites in Belize served as important points. The territory known as Belize includes three
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out of tree trunks and measured approximately 25 meters in length. Each canoe had a travel capacity of approximately 50 people. The main reason for the Taino migration was increased agitation and threats from the Carib indigenous people from the same region in South America. The Caribs were fierce in the their pursuit of the Taino and followed them up into the Lesser Antilles. Culturally‚ both the Taino and Siboney differed greatly. The Siboneys communed in small societies. Some would argue that
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the case of the Garifuna can be traced all the way back to the 16th and 17th century after their exile to the island of Roatán. Trade had been established as a form of survival. According to Christopher Taylor’s The Black Carib Wars‚ the British “intended that the Black Caribs should build on Roatán a settlement based on agriculture supplemented by fishing and hunting (147)”. During their first years of settlement on the island‚ the Garifuna were forced to adjust to not only a new landscape‚ but
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communities. It is from these remote communities that the Jamaican Maroons raided British settlements and plantations for supplies and attracted more runaway slaves. The eastern community was known as the Windward Maroons and the one further west was called Leeward Maroons. The name Maroon is the British corruption of the Spanish word cimarrones‚ meaning wild or untamed. Living in inaccessible regions of Jamaica‚ the numbers of the Maroons grew as more and more runaway slaves fleeing from the new
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Dandelion Salad October 12‚ 2009 Image by Whiskeygonebad via Flickr An excerpt from A People’s History of the United States. Arawak men and women‚ naked‚ tawny‚ and full of wonder‚ emerged from their villages onto the island’s beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore‚ carrying swords‚ speaking oddly‚ the Arawaks ran to greet them‚ brought them food‚ water‚ gifts. He later wrote of this in his log: “They… brought us parrots and balls
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